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

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

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.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

Religion is caught, not taught.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.