No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.