Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.