What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

A person [Satan] who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four- fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.