Society and the World

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

A woman can be anything that the man who loves her would have her be.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, on the whole, as money. A man’s learning dies with him; even his virtues fade out of remembrance; but the

I don’t believe the Devil would give half as much for the services of a sinner as he would for those of one of these folks that are always doing virtuous acts in a way to make them unpleasing.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one’s virtues.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists.

[Tolerance] is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

There is one disadvantage which the man of philosophical habits of mind suffers, as compared with the man of action. While he is talcing an enlarged and rational view of the matter before him, he lets his chance slip through his fingers.

Thinking is hard work. One can’t bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

A poet on Pegasus, reciting his own verses, is hardly more to be dreaded than a mounted specialist.

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single flat surface.

The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It is well that the stately synagogue should lift its walls by the side of the aspiring cathedral, a perpetual reminder that there are many mansions in Father’s earthly house as well as in the heavenly ones.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to^reak the bank of our answers.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

It is a very curious fact that, with all our boasted “free and equal superiority over the communities of the Old World, our people [Americans] have the most enormous appetite for Old World titles of distinction.