How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.