Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.