When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before. There will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. It will rage till every flower of culture is trampled, and all human things are leveled in a vast chaos.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.