It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.