A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.