The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

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.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.