To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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.