I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure