There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.