The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

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

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