That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.