“Never argue, repeat your assertion.”

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men. They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o’er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual’s originality that is most important?

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, – that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.