The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.