Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.