Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.