The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.