“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact”

“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ”

“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

“Half a truth is better than no politics”

“Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism”