The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.