There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

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.