That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

Want of decency is want of sense

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded . . .

Have you no sense of decency? ... Have you no sense of decency at long last?

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.