The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.