Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters. H. L.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late. H. L.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. H. L.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. H. L.

How long will the human race sweat under the superstition that, in order to be happy and useful and intelligent, it is necessary to believe in things? What nonsense indeed! Human progress consists, not in acquiring beliefs, but in getting rid of them.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. H. L.