When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.