All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

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