God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.