I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.