Elitism Is The Slur Directed At Merit

Those Obsessed With Health Are Not Healthy; The First Requisite Of Good Health Is A Certain Calculated Carelessness About Oneself.

Good Teaching Must Be Slow Enough So That It Is Not Confusing, And Fast Enough So That It Is Not Boring.

Life Is, If Anything, The Art Of Combination. Of Discrimination. Of Freely Picking One's Own Personal Pattern Out Of A Hundred Choices. Not Letting It Be Picked For You—either By The Establishment, Or By The Rebels. Conformity Of Hip Is No Better Than Conformity Of Square.

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.

As We Grow Older, We Should Learn That These Are Two Quite Different Things. Character Is Something You Forge For Yourself; Temperament Is Something You Are Born With And Can Only Slightly Modify. Some People Have Easy Temperaments And Weak Characters; Others Have Difficult Temperaments And Strong Characters. We Are All Prone To Confuse The Two In Assessing People We Associate With. Those With Easy Temperaments And Weak Characters Are More Likable Than Admirable; Those With Difficult Temperaments And Strong Characters Are More Admirable Than Likable.