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

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.