A great social reformer.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.