Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.