There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.