There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.