The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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