A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.