Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.