Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

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

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

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.