Property is organized robbery.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
