There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

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All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing...

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing...

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...