If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.