The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.