Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.