People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.