You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.