Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.