Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Nature abhors a moron.

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.