Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.