This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.