If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.