No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

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