A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.