Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.