The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.