Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.