Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.