Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

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

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."

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

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.