Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

Intuition? Bosh! Women, in fact, are the supreme realists of the race.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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

[New York] is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits.