You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.