We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit read more

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.