Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.