Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.