The First Thing A Principle Does Is

Wherever You Find A Great Man, You Will Find A Great Mother Or A Great Wife Standing Behind Him -- Or So They Used To Say. It Would Be Interesting To Know How Many Great Women Have Had Great Fathers And Husbands Behind Them.

I Gather That He Nearly Knocked You Down, Damaged Your Property, And Generally Made A Nuisance Of Himself, And That You Instantly Concluded He Must Be Some Relation To Me.

For The Sole True End Of Education Is Simply This: To Teach Men How To Learn For Themselves; And Whatever Instruction Fails To Do This Is Effort Spent In Vain.

The First Thing That Strikes The Careless Observer Is That Women Are Unlike Men. They Are 'the Opposite Sex' - (though Why 'opposite' I Do Not Know; What Is The 'neighbouring Sex'?).

I Imagine You Come Across A Number Of People Who Are Disconcerted By The Difference Between What You Do Feel And What They Fancy You Ought To Feel. It Is Fatal To Pay The Smallest Attention To Them.