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.