I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.