domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.