One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.