Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.