If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.