Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.