Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.