It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.