It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.