No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.