Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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 proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.