One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.