History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Nature abhors a moron.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner