Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.