It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.