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

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.