People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.