One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.