A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.