The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

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.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.