The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.