It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."