When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.