The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.