When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.