A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.