Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.