I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.