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

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.