There are no new ideas about female education.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.