The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.