There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.