you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.