We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.