The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.