When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.