The 100% American is 99% idiot.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.