It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.