For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.