Great Throughts Treasury

"A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed."

"One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little."

"To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy."

"Psychiatry’s chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul."

"There are few successful adults who were not at first successful children."

"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion."

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

"The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions."