A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.