Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.