Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

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

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.