As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.