Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.