The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

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 arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.