Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.