It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.