It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.