The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal

Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all