If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.