I said nothing of the sort.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.