Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to read more

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored read more

When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater read more

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a read more

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.