The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.