Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

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."

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.