The only object of liberty is life.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

There are no new ideas about female education.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.