Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Error itself may be happy chance.