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?

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.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

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