What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.