Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

No man becomes bad all at once.

No atrocity was ever committed because people were being too reasonable, too skeptical, or too independently minded.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.