The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.