You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.