Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

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.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

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.

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