He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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!

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.