When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.