The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.