Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

My way of joking is to tell the truth