A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

All government, of course, is against liberty.