If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

I fantasize about LeBron's ability. He is the best player I have ever seen at this age.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.