The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.