Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.