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.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.