Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

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.

Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.

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

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!