George A. Moore

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.