A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Every girl has a right to be loved.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.