“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em.”
“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.”
“I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.”
“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
“A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”