Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.