As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.