Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.