If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.