The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.