Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.