A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.