As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.