“Pride is a great hindrance to progress.”

“I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.”

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.”

“Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152)”

“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”

“The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great.”