Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.