The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

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.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

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

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.