If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.
If art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.
I’d sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It’s better to know one’s robbed than to think one’s going to be murdered.
I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon.
I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
I love words: they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
