A Healthy Nation Is As Unconscious Of

All Great Truths Begin As Blasphemies.

The Art Of Manipulating Public Opinion, Which Is A Necessary Art For The Democratic Politician, And, Like Other Arts, Is Sometimespractised With Greater Virtuosity By Knaves Than By Honest Men (who Are Apt To Disdain It), Has A Different Technique In Different Countries. For Instance, In England We Excel In Whitewashing: In America They Excel In Tarring And Feathering. We Strain Our Nerves And Stretch Our Consciences To Avoid A Scandal: Americans Do The Same To Make One.

As Long As You Don't Fly Openly In The Face Of Society, Society Doesn't Ask Any Inconvenient Questions; And It Makes Precious Short Work Of The Cads Who Do. There Are No Secrets Better Kept Than The Secrets Everybody Guesses.

Decency Is Indecency's Conspiracy Of Silence

Reviewing Has One Advantage Over Suicide: In Suicide You Take It Out On Yourself; In Reviewing You Take It Out On Other People.