A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.