Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

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.

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

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.