I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.