[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.