No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.