A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
