I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily...

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A...

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for...

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

An honest man is always a child.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The face is the soul of the body.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.