[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.