Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.