Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.