One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.