The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.