The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.