Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.