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

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

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

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.