“Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.”
“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
“Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”
“An evolutionary morality argues that The North was right in pursuing that war because a nation is a higher form of evolution than a human body and the principle of human equality is an even higher form than a nation”
“It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.”