Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop.

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The….

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions..

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and w….

What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and ha….

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions..

There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers..

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend..

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of someth….

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed..

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed i….

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly..

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husban….

Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agre….

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas..

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell..

The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready ….

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon s….

One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them,….

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-….

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of instituti….