We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Power doesn't corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.