Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.