You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

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