Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.