There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.