Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.