Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for. - James Richardson

Hasn’t there … been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.

The drives were nature’s first provision: thinking was added later, to get us around the world’s obstacles to them.

The great consolation of righteousness is never having to worry whether you’re a bore.