Society and the World

I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us.

It isn’t what a man has that constitutes wealth. No—it is to be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

One advantage resulting from virtuous actions is that they elevate the mind and dispose it to attempt others more virtuous still.

Virtue would not go nearly so far if vanity did not keep her company.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

Virtue . . . is a mean state between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

It is no doubt a good thing to conquer on the field of battle, but it needs greater wisdom and greater skill to make use of victory.