Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.