Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

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

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.