In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

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

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

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.

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.