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.

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.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

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.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.