It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.