The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein