High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

What democracy needs most of all is a party that will separate the good that is in it theoretically from the evils that beset it practically, and then try to erect that good into a workable system.