A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.