"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."

"The more original a man is, the more he will be alone."

"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

"Every man has a certain amount of original sin in him, and this is the cause of all his misery."

"One need only look at a woman's shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our ea…"