This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.