I consider women a great deal superior to men. Men are physically strong, but women are morally better.... It is woman who keeps t...he world in balance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of mi...nds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know of no book which has come down to us with grander pretensions than this, and it is so impersonal and sincere that it is nev...er offensive nor ridiculous. Compare the modes in which modern literature is advertised with the prospectus of this book, and think what a reading public it addresses, what criticism it expects. It seems to have been uttered from some eastern summit, with a sober morning prescience in the dawn of time, and you cannot read a sentence without being elevated as upon the table-land of the Ghauts. It has such a rhythm as the winds of the desert, such a tide as the Ganges, and is as superior to criticism as the Himmaleh Mountains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobbery... meets its match here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and... personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those w...ho are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a mat...erial environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably supe...rior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »