The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

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.