What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.