A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.