Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.