The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.