This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments i….

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever ….

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves..

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again..

Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy thei….

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist..

No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If ….

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts..

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and a….

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought..

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend..

Adultery is the application of democracy to love..

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not..

The only time you have a free press is when you own one..

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts..

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the ….

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest..

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar..

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism..

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it..

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence..