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

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.