The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.