When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.