I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

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

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion