My reputation grows with every failure.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

You scandalous woman, will you throw away even your hypocrisy?