The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.