Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.