Life would be dull without them.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.