‘It is better to advance the knowledge of the world one inch than to win the long-jump with two-and-twenty feet.’
‘Better vice than repression. A drunken man may be a lesson to keep his fellows sober.’
‘Nothing great without suffering.’
‘Strong arm, strong brain.’
‘When women begin to invent they will justify their supremacy.’
‘The Higher Intelligence is a phrase that must be transferred, not lost sight of.’
‘Men who are happy laugh—they must laugh. Women, who have never felt the necessity of laughter, have killed it in men.’
‘The sun is masculine—he creates. The moon is feminine—she only reflects.’
And so, with many other parables, dark sayings, and direct teachings, the wise woman brought her disciple to her own house at Cambridge.