We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

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

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.