One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.