For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.