Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.