A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.