If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.