Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse..

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it..

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh..

The only really happy folk are married women and single men..

Evil is that which one believes of others..

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt..

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing..

Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons..

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and ….

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive ….

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth..

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient..

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected..

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood..

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music..

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it..

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a maste….

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the cit….

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race..