Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.