Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.