The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

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.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot