 With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. |
| Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith. |
| It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. |
| The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. |
| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. |
| We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. |
| Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. |
| There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. |
| The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. |
| Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. |
| Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. |
| Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. |
| We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. |
| Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. |
| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
| Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. |
| Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. |
| One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. |
| Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. |
| The greatest weariness comes from work not done. |
