A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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.