Public opinion's always in advance of the law

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

They did not stop to love each other in this life; they were so sure they had all eternity to do it in. The doctrine was an invention to enable men to act like dogs with clear consciences. Love could never come to full fruition till it was …

Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!

The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet. I'll fill your lap, my pretty, so full of treasures that you shan't know yourself. A man wasn't meant to sit at home...

The balance between the sayings: 'Might is Right,' and 'Right is Might.' They're both half-truth, but the first was beating the other out of the field. All the rest of it is cant, you know.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.