What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.