For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

My practicality consists in this in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength my only strength.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home wondering why the hell you went.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam not a stagnant pool.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites passions and affections.

Happiness... consists in giving and in serving others.