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.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.