The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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

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.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.