Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

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

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.

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.