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

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.