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

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

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

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."