Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.