Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.