Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.