Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

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

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas