Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.