An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.