Virtue Consists, Not In Abstaining From Vice,

The Writer Who Aims At Producing The Platitudes Which Are "not For An Age, But For All Time" Has His Reward In Being Unreadable Inall Ages.... The Man Who Writes About Himself And His Own Time Is The Only Sort Of Man Who Writes About All People And About All Time.

All This Struggling And Striving To Make The World Better Is A Great Mistake. Not That It's Wrong To Try To Improve The World If You Know How But Simply Because Struggling And Striving Are The Worst Possible Ways To Go About Doing Anything!

You Don't Expect Me To Know What To Say About A Play When I Don't Know Who The Author Is, Do You? . . . If It's By A Good Author, It's A Good Play, Naturally. That Stands To Reason.

We Throw The Whole Drudgery Of Creation On One Sex, And Then Imply That No Female Of Any Delicacy Would Initiate Any Effort In That Direction.

A Contract For Better For Worse Is A Contract That Should Not Be Tolerated.