Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

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.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.