I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.