In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.