Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

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