To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

Plain lies are dangerous.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).