A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.