In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.