The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.