The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.