Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.