“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”

“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”

“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”

“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.”

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”

“If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God....”