It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.