Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.