There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour for me. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I can't help preferring champagne to ditch water — I doubt if the universe does.

We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind....Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Every opinion tends to become a law.