How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.