Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.