It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not q….

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such ….

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident..

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the ….

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them….

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better….

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual..

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute..

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never..

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated..

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped of….

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian..

As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have….

Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well..

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue..

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks..

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it a….

What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God prepost….

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches..