Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.