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

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.