There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

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

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible