Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

There are no new ideas about female education.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.