It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.