HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.