The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.