The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.