Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

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