The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

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.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.