Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

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.