The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

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.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.