The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.