Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer