"The state is merely a large-scale institution for the prevention of crime, and as such is a necessary evil."

"Women are guilty of perjury far more often than men. It is questionable whether they ought to be allowed to take an oath at all."

"Women are suited to being the nurses and teachers of our earliest childhood precisely because they themselves are childish, silly, and short-sighted."

"Reading is merely a substitute for thinking for oneself."

"The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reason and mental powers hardly before the age of eight-and-twenty; a woma…"