I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.