"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."

"In short, a large part of the powers of the human race is taken away from the production of what is necessary, in order to bring what is superfluous and unnecessary within the reach of a few."

"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man."

"It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race: for the whole beau…"

"Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one o…"