Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.