The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.