Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.