Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.