Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.