A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.