It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

Language was invented to ask questions.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.