The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.