A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.