I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.