As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.