There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

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