Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.