When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity

I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.