Most people do not pray; they only beg.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.