The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman