Henry Ellis

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.