My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.