Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.