To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.