Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.