What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.