When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

We are made kind by being kind.

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

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.