A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.