A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.