On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.