If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Altogether too many sheep

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.