I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.