Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.