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

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.