One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.