I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.