A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.