One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.