As a well spent day brings happy sleep so life well used brings happy death.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth we are likely to...
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing...
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each...
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with...
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power...
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their...
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased...
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human...
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most...
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action...
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that...
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way...
Take away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains there is no...
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but...
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith...
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings...
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure...
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true...
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the...
In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find...
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the...
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and...
