Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.