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

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Children are the keys of paradise.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

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.