What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

The only time you have a free press is when you own one.

Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.