Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.