The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.