The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.