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Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.