Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.