Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

We can destroy only as creators

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.