Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.