Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.