The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.