We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.