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

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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