For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.