Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.