Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.