The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.