I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.