So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as th...
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push throu...
Belief creates the actual fact.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Psychology is the science of mental life
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembe...
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remai...
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.