“The people will take a certain amount of reform, then they want a rest. But the reforms stay.”
“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.”
“I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”
“Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.”
“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.”