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.

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.

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

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

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.

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

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.