Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.