[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.