But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

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.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

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

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.