There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.