All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

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

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

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