Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.