A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.