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

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.