men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

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

You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

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

... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.