The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.