Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.