I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

Example is better than precept.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.