A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.