Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.