The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

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