Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.