The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.