Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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.