Very few people can afford to be poor.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.