The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.