Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.