A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.