The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.