The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

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