The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.