Wife: a former sweetheart.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

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