In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.