Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has…

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - t…

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are n…

There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line B…