In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

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.