"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."

"Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable."

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

“When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.” 

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel” 

Men of moral and intellectual distinction could scarcely agree to teach in schools where an alien attitude was forced upon them. 

“Morality is a consequence of the encounter with Jesus Christ.” 

“He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. ” 

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” 

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

“The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.” 

“If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.”

“The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.”

“To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.”

“I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” 

“All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.” 

“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.” 

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” 

“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.” 

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” 

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.