Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.