Who said “Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.”?

“He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.”

“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”

“I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.”

“To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.”

“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.”

“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”

“All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”

“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”

“At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.”