Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.