“One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense.""Or else a fool.”

“Common sense was not as common as the Deity might wish for. Indeed, not even the angelic choirs were entirely free of a certain vice known as silliness.”

“...a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.”

“The only religion which is against nature, against common sense and against our pleasures is the only one which has always existed.”

“But her voice sounded wistful. It is one of her theories that a woman must never be jealous, never try to hold man against his will; but I could tell that she hadn't enjoyed seeing someone else bring father to life.”