In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.