For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.