All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.