Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.