Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.