There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.

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.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.