"I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel."

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."

"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'"

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"Always run from a knife and rush a gun."

"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."

"When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway."

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives."

"Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man."