Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.