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

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.