The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.