It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

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

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.