Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.