All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.