[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the ….

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not bec….

It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he w….

What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others….

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman..

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post..

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of ….

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in….

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it..

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love..

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark f….

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that ….

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time..

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum..

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effective….

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe..

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate..

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense..

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion..

Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of….