I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.