The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.