Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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.

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

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.