If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Better never than late. No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.