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

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

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

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.