It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.