Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.