The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.