Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.