The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.

What is matter? Never mind.

At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.