Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.