A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.