If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.