Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.