A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.