When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.