The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

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.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.