I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.