“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.”

“The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.”

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”

“But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.”

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

“...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.”

“He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.”