Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.