No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.