Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Do something everyday 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.
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.