Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.