We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.