A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

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

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.