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 moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.