Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.