Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.