A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

the best of all good friends is pride.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.