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

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

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

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.

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.