All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.