It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.