The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

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

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.