"Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization."

“Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."”

“If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time.”

“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”

“A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.”

“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”

“Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.”