"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."

"Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted."

"With women, nature has made a blunder."

"The price of glory is the loss of leisure."

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."