The best client is a scared millionaire.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.