How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.