Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.