We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.