Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.