We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.