Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.