To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Children and fools always speak the truth

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.