It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.