For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.