A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.