A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.