What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.