"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."
"The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right."
"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."