It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.