Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.