Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Proper Studies (1927)
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent. Proper Studies (1927)
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. Proper Studies (1927)
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Proper Studies (1927)
Where beauty is worshiped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty. Proper Studies (1927)