All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.