Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.