A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.