The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Every claim creates an obligation.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.