Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

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.