Money is a most important thing in the world.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.