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

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

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.