Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

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

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.