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

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.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.