It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

The more we know, the better our intuitions.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.