I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

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

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

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

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.