Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.