The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.