Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.