Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.