Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.