The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.