Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.