The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

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.