The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.