Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.