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

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.