For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.