"My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.”

“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”

“All great men come out of the middle classes.”

“If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.”

“I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”

“In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.”

“Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.”