Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

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