"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it." 

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." 

"Every right article of apparel belongs equally to both sexes, and there is absolutely no such thing as a definitely feminine garment." 

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." 

"Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime." 

"Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us, with bitterness and disappointment in its train."