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

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.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.