Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.