The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.