If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum