Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

One can say everything best over a meal.