The strenuous life tastes better

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.