The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.