Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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 vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

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

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.