No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

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

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.