The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.