It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.