If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.