There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

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