The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been cau….

When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that ha….

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading..

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats..

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation..

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a….

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good..

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms..

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good..

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged..

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long..

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing..

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite….

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty..

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon….

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of….

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuos….

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind..

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that y….

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he fa….

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still….