Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

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.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.