People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.