We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.