. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.