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

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.