How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.