While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

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.