Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Where are we really going? Always home.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.
Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.
Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves;. . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.