We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

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

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

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

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