Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.