Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.