Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.