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

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

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

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

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

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