Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

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.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.