Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.