If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid