If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.