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.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Every man is his own hell.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.