When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.