Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

Progress is the mother of problems.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.