Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a