The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.