So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

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

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.