We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that