It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.