If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Nature tells the truth as it is

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, —the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.