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

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

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

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.