We are made kind by being kind.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.

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.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.