Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.