Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

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

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.