Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.