New York: A third-rate Babylon.

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.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.