Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

dilettantism.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

ennui

The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course a la mode.

have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.