It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth