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.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.