Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging."

"You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God."

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.