The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.