Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.