There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.

However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

Fashion should be a game.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.