It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.