Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.