To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.