A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

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

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.