The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.