Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

The perfection of rottenness.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.