When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.