“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
“People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.”
“It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.”
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.”
“Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.”